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Apr 24, 2012 -- 9:44PM, uncleistvan1111 wrote:

I really feel like both of today's decks ignore the word "budget" in the column's title. The first deck uses 20 rares and the second uses 14 and 4 mythics.

You must be new here.  JVL has been using "budget" very loosely since roughly forever.

I love green decks, and I've literally been frothing at the mouth over Avacyn Restored's new green cards!! Build the Wolfir deck!

Loose with the term budget is an understatement.

A $100 deck is not a budget deck. Period. He should respect the fact that most budget players are making decks that cost somewhere around 30-50 dollars max. Going twice that is just irresponsibly ignorant to the budget building community.

I'm not saying he should be setting a maximum dollar value or rare limit to decks. But Plopping 4 Venser's in a deck without a second guess, or adding 2 Damnations or other crap he's done in the past is just getting frustrating.

I like JVL's originality and deck ideas...Some of the time. His deck using the card Annex and his Pyromancer Ascension decks where both great articles. But it's like for every one good deck he makes, we get a myriad of other over budget, unplaytested, or illegal decks (like his ponder blunder a month ago).

This column has the unique ability to provide budget players (There are a lot of us) with what should be a professional take on budget deckbuilding. That is hard to find elsewhere on the internet. Most people just make crazy expensive decks and chuck $40+ rares in left right and centre. And trying to filter through fandecks that are even half decent and are also budget is a nightmare. So us budget players come here with wide eyes and childlike hope that a professional can help us solve our budget woes.

I really feel like at times JVL doesn't appreciate this distinction very much and just lazily pushes out one article after another.

I say it's high time he either figures out how to write these articles consistently, or we get a new author (or bring back BB).

Apr 25, 2012 -- 2:24AM, BlindMessiah wrote:

Loose with the term budget is an understatement.



A $100 deck is not a budget deck. Period. He should respect the fact that most budget players are making decks that cost somewhere around 30-50 dollars max. Going twice that is just irresponsibly ignorant to the budget building community.

I'm not saying he should be setting a maximum dollar value or rare limit to decks. But Plopping 4 Venser's in a deck without a second guess, or adding 2 Damnations or other crap he's done in the past is just getting frustrating.

I like JVL's originality and deck ideas...Some of the time. His deck using the card Annex and his Pyromancer Ascension decks where both great articles. But it's like for every one good deck he makes, we get a myriad of other over budget, unplaytested, or illegal decks (like his ponder blunder a month ago).

This column has the unique ability to provide budget players (There are a lot of us) with what should be a professional take on budget deckbuilding. That is hard to find elsewhere on the internet. Most people just make crazy expensive decks and chuck $40+ rares in left right and centre. And trying to filter through fandecks that are even half decent and are also budget is a nightmare. So us budget players come here with wide eyes and childlike hope that a professional can help us solve our budget woes.

I really feel like at times JVL doesn't appreciate this distinction very much and just lazily pushes out one article after another.

I say it's high time he either figures out how to write these articles consistently, or we get a new author (or bring back BB).

Um you can get the first deck of under 50 dollars at SCG which is isnt even the cheapest you can get it